[Ns-developers] BridgeChannel::~BridgeChannel

[Gustavo Carneiro]

2009/10/14 Andrey Mazo <mazo at iitp.ru>

> Craig, can you please help me (maybe others) understand why this is needed?
>> Presumably, the BridgeChannel destructor implicitly will call the
>> destructor
>> of m_bridgeChannels (vector), which would call the destructor for each
>> element inside, and finally Ptr<Channel>::~Ptr<Channel>() would Unref the
>> object.  So, in theory C++ should take care of everything, and so isn't
>> the
>> code you inserted completely redundant?
>>
> Have the same question in bug #711 [1].
> The only answer is that it's an old problem [2].:)
>

Yes, but if it's a problem, it is so fundamental that is worth investigating
and documenting.  Could it be that we are only working around a valgrind
bug?  If so, adding an explanatory comment stating this would be warranted.


>
> [1] http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=711#c4
> [2] http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=711#c2
>
>
> --
> Andrey Mazo.
>



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Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
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